The Hitcher

Never pick up strangers.


The Hitcher
This is a remake of an 1986 film with the same title, and oddly enough, even has the same scriptwriter involved. A young couple are travelling in unfamiliar territory, when they offer a hitchhiker a lift. He turns out to be a baddy, but they manage to escape. The next day, he returns to haunt them on their journey, and it's not long before they find themselves framed for a string of murders that he has committed. However, this time, he's met his match...

83 minutes.
No persons under 18 (Language, Violence).
Action, Horror, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

You can run but you can
You can run but you can't hide...

Credits

Cast
Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough, Kyle Davis, Skip O'Brien, Travis Schuldt
Director
Dave Meyers
ScreenplayEric Red, Jake Wade Wall, Eric Bernt, based on the previous screenplay by Eric Red
MusicSteve Jablonsky
CinematographyJames Hawkinshon
EditingJim May
Sound formatsDolby Digital, DTS
Made in2007
Produced byIntrepid Pictures, Platinum Dunes

Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Medium


ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity
4
Violence
5
Blood / Gore / Gross
5
Guns / Weapons
5
Profanity
5
Alcohol / Drugs
0
Smoking
0
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude
5
Imitative Behaviour
2
Frightening / Tense Scenes
4
Jump Scenes
4
Tense Family Scenes
0
Music (Scary/Tense)
5
Music (Inappropriate)
4
Topics to talk about
3


Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

Cape Argus / The Star
Munyaradzi vumo quote iconBad plot... dull ending.
5
Cape Times
Anthony Quinn quote iconKiller on the road — again.
1
iAfrica.com
Rob Peters quote iconThe best part about this movie is its running time — a mere hour and 15 minutes. I don't think I would have lasted much longer.
1
Mail & Guardian
Shaun de Waal
6
The Citizen
Peter Feldman quote iconTalented actor wasted in soulless remake.
6
24.com
Ivan Sadler quote iconFor horror fans there is a single inventive death, but for anyone else, this is just tired rubbish.
1
BBC
Anna Smith quote iconThere's nothing subtle about The Hitcher, but its boundless enthusiasm for genre staples entertains in a silly sort of way.
5
Box Office
Tim Cogshell quote iconRemake just about reaches the creepy heights of the original
8
eye Weekly
James Simons quote iconA safe slasher flick with predictably unpredictable jolts of excitement, sunny-turned-stormy cinematography, a victim-turned-hero protagonist and a truckload of victims-turned-corpses.
5
ReelViews
James Berardinelli quote iconThe lesson imparted by the 1986 movie was to avoid hitchhikers. The lesson imparted by the 2007 version is to avoid The Hitcher.
8
ScreenIt
quote iconThis is an unnecessary, redundant and flatly made remake of the 1986 film of the same name.
6
Metacritic.com
16 critics
6
Rottentomatoes critics
83 critics
8
Rottentomatoes tomatometer
Tomatometer quote iconInterested in only cheap shocks, and gratuitious gore and torture.
4

What the People say

Internet
7608 Netizens
11

Average .. 27%

5




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